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That's plumb cool right there....very, very cool.
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I had 8 other rifles out that day including a Fieldcraft 6.5 Creedmoor, and this old '99 stole the show!
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Nice.. 99 's are super cool , just not my cup of tea, but love to see them and those who use them well...
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Beautiful rifle! I'd take it over a Fieldcraft any day. That rifle has Panache!
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Sweet rifle and grand ole cartridge...one of my all-time favorites!!
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I wasn't familiar with the '99 until I started hanging out on the 'fire and after reading about them here, decided I needed one. When this one showed up at the LGS, it came home with me but had some issues. A previous owner had installed washers between the back of the back of the forend and receiver that was causing problems with the rotary magazine. A local gunsmith worked on it a couple of times to get resolved and it's been fine ever since. I've hunted with it a few times but haven't shot anything with it - that needs to change...
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I have two in 300 Sav and one in 250 as much as i love the design i never seem to get them into the deer woods. Good shooting with a classic beauty.
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Man that’s great! Love it when a rifle shows a preference for partitions like that. Kinda blows up the argument that partitions aren’t accurate right? Got a small ring Mauser that adores em as well.
Sweet rifle you got there.
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It's a beauty! Blood that bad boy!
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Very slick. I "need" one of those.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Outstanding, JGray!
While we try to stack angles on the heads of pins with gack & minutiae, rifles like your 99 go get the job done, & chuckle at our folly.
Do send trophy pics with it.
FC
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- Mrs. FC
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Most excellent! can you share the primer type and cartridge OAL, please?
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Love seeing classic blued steel and walnut rifles. My dad had the same rifle. Great cartridge-300 Savage. Not a whole lot of species of north American game you CAN’T take with that set up, yet new ( unneeded?) cartridges keep getting marketed.
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JGray,
The .250SAV & .300SAV are my "go to" calibers for deer/predator hunting. - Mine happen to be in Remington Model 760 pump versions but the Savage 99 in its various forms is SLICK, too.
(YES, I have a 760 in .250-3000 Savage. = CHERRY'S SPORTING GOODS had an unknown, but small, number of 760 rifles chambered in that caliber in the mid-1950s. - I found it in a PA gun store about 2 decades ago.)
These "special chamberings" are allegedly $$$$$ but that makes ZERO difference to me, as mine is not for sale.
I collect Model 760 rifles & need TWO to complete the set: a .257 Roberts & the VERY RARE (& never sold in the USA) rifle in 7x57mm. = I've heard that less than 100 rifles in 7x57mm were manufactured before Remington stopped producing that caliber.
(I doubt if I'll ever find the 7mm.)
CONGRADS on your NICE rifle.
yours, tex
"VICTORY OR DEATH"
William Barrett Travis, Lt.Col., comdt.
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J.Gray,
Much thanks for your outstanding photo and story of your .300 Savage rifle.
Posts like Gray's that make this forum so interesting.
All guns should be locked up when not in use!
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Well done man! That'll bring home the bacon.
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Most excellent! can you share the primer type and cartridge OAL, please? Pretty sure the primer is a CCI 200 but don't have notes from when I loaded them - AOL is 2.600".
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Thank you. I have a real good load as well but with 180gr Speers
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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